Side event on the margins of INC-2: Key elements from solid waste and water management perspectives to beat plastic pollution
Adjacent to the INC-2 in Paris, France, ISWA is joined by our National Member in France, ASTEE, French Water Pertnership and the French Solid Waste Partnership to host a side-event on May 30th.
Join us at Rooftop Grenelle, Espace NewCap
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Programme
7.30 AM:
Walk in with breakfast, served with a view of the Eiffel Tower
- Gilles Kleitz – Executive Director for Sustainable Development Solutions – Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
- Carlos Silva Filho President of the International Solid Waste Association
- Barbara Pompili, Chair of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Former French Minister for the Environmental Transition
- Pierre Hirtzberger, President of ASTEE
- HE Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change (TBC)
Moderator for panel and room discussion:
- Sabine Roux de Bézieux, VP of the International Affairs commission of French Council on Environment, Social and Economic policies ; Author of the CESE report preparing the plastic treaty negotiation
Panelists :
- Sophie Sicard, Sustainable Development deputy Director Paprec Group
- Norway delegate for INC2 (TBD)
- Jan Janssen, Director of PROMAR (Marine Litter Prevention in the Caribbean)
Moderator for panel and room discussion:
- Corinne Trommsdorff, General Director of the French Solid Waste Partnership
Panelists :
- Alexandra Monteiro, AFD Technical Lead on Waste Management
- Mr. Adalberto Maluf, National Secretary of Environment Brazil
Panel: The need and complexity of initiating recycling markets while driving volume reduction
Moderator for panel and room discussion:
- Aditi Ramola, Technical Director of ISWA
Panelists :
- Cecilie Lind, CEO Norwegian Retailer’ Environment Fund
- Jacob Rognhaug, VP Public Affairs System Design at TOMRA Systems
- Representative from the French INC-2 Treaty negotiation delegation (TBD)
Launch of the ISWA position paper
- Nancy Strand, Senior Advisor at Avfall Norge, Lead of the ISWA Task Force on plastic pollution
Conclusion
- Gérard Wolf – Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Integrated Sustainable Development (TBC)
About INC
Intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to develop a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
In February 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution (5/14) was adopted to develop a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution with the ambition to complete the negotiations by end of 2024.
The instrument is to be based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. The INC will consider how to promote sustainable production and consumption of plastics from product design to environmentally sound waste management through resource efficiency and circular economy approaches.
The rapidly increasing levels of plastic pollution represent a serious global environmental issue that negatively impacts the environmental, social, economic and health dimensions of sustainable development. Under a business-as-usual scenario and in the absence of necessary interventions, the amount of plastic waste entering aquatic ecosystems could nearly triple from some 9–14 million tonnes per year in 2016 to a projected 23–37 million tons per year by 2040.
